We performed a comparison between Dell XtremIO and VMware vSAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dell Technologies, NetApp, Pure Storage and others in All-Flash Storage."It's just very easy for general block storage."
"The speed is the most valuable feature, along with the ease of getting it connected. We were able to get it online in less than a day."
"Data deduplication is one feature I found to be the most valuable in the tool...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The back-end data reporting for Pure Storage is phenomenal. The data that you can see on the performance of your customers' array, so you can be proactive about upgrades or enhancements, and is a phenomenal tool to have access to as a partner. I haven't seen this type of stuff out of anything of the other storage systems."
"We are very happy with the data deduplication and compression ratio that we have on the platform."
"The scalability options are very nice because you can scale it much better and faster. The scalability was there in the previous environment also, but this is far better than what we had before. It basically helps the user in case they are looking for more storage. We can scale it much faster."
"The tool has reduced our power consumption."
"It comes with a large number of features out-of-the-box, which makes it easy for us to see problems and manage capacity."
"The program is very stable."
"Initially, we faced numerous issues with our analytical systems. However, we saw performance improvement after the implementation of the solution."
"The performance is good, which is important."
"We mostly use it for backup, because we cannot measure anything, and we are afraid to use it for surveillance systems. We were planning to use it for mostly for surveillance systems."
"The feature I like most about Dell Xtremio is its hardware quality compared to other vendors. It's clear they're continuously improving their research and development."
"Xtrem10's features are more simple to implement. The integration and interface are also good."
"Dell XtremIO is good for databases and huge workloads."
"The most valuable features are: complete performance and ease of use."
"We don't have to order a storage system, we can just use whatever we have on hand and roll it into our virtualization system."
"Storage policies are used to perform operations in the VMs. This feature allows you to create storage policies for VMs to get performance, high availability, I/O policies, etc."
"VMware vSAN is easy to configure, with basic functionality and the customer can maintain the solution."
"vSAN is very integrated."
"We had very good access to technical support."
"VMware vSAN is easy to implement in a VMware environment and it is not expensive."
"It uncoupled the idea of proprietary technology and component capabilities. It is basically a proprietary technology for a cost-effective infrastructure."
"It allows us to put our infrastructure in remote locations and still get the same performance we get from our onsite SAN solutions."
"I like what they're doing, but some of my customers complain that they do not have all the bells and whistles and knobs to fine-tune workloads that some of the competitors have. In my opinion, that's good. All customers don't have dedicated storage gurus, and they can get themselves into trouble if they fine-tune too many of those high-performance knobs, but they do get knocked down. Pure Storage takes a hit in the minds and opinions of some of the customers because they cannot customize things as much as compared to a legacy storage provider's appliance such as NetApp, Dell EMC, or even HPE. I personally think 95% of my customers are better off letting the system fine-tune itself. That was something that you needed to do 12 or 15 years ago, but now with all-flash, the technology can handle what it needs to handle. Customers just end up shooting themselves in the foot if they are tweaking too many default settings."
"There was some complexity in the initial setup."
"FlashArray's capacity for forecasting should be improved because it needs to be a bit more current. I think it's bundled with the deduplication and other compression factors. We need more user interfaces for forecasting in this software and more interfaces need to be integrated with this array management tool."
"The price of this solution could be improved."
"I would like to see more detailed reporting on the data. However, it would be nice to know what are the exact VMs usage after deduplication and/or what that VMs actual latency and bandwidth is, outside of VMware."
"The price of the solution can improve."
"It needs to improve its price."
"I would like to see them lower the costs."
"The management should be improved and the GUI interface could be better and easier."
"The physical architecture could use some higher levels of redundancy."
"Scalability is something that can be improved because there is an issue when it comes to mixing versions."
"The implementation isn't exactly complex, but the solution should have some enhancements in it to make the process more centralized."
"I would like hardware capacity additions to be a little more flexible. The upgrade path for the existing XTremIO units requires you to purchase 2 XBricks at a time and they need to be the same capacity as the existing XBricks."
"The GUI could be modified more in terms of how the different components are linked to each other."
"This solution is geared toward enterprise-level companies. Small and medium-sized businesses would find it extremely expensive."
"Native data replication: To replicate data between XtremIO devices, you need to use EMC’s RecoverPoint appliances to move the data."
"They should make the software updates easier. We should be able to upgrade it more easily."
"he list of hardware supported should be increased in the future."
"More focus has to be put on deduplication and compression with a hybrid architecture."
"There are certain shortcomings in the stability of the product where improvements are required."
"VMware vSAN could improve by having faster reload time and a single point of failure. Resynchronization of many hardware could be better. If you have an outage of a disc or a full system, the replication time is too slow. This has room for improvement."
"It would be ideal if the solution offered some intelligent monitoring."
"It could be more robust. The latency is also an issue for us, and the reliability. I would like it to be faster and a little more flexible."
"We would like to see additional backup and recovery options added. In particular, integration with popular applications like databases."
Dell XtremIO is ranked 26th in All-Flash Storage with 48 reviews while VMware vSAN is ranked 2nd in HCI with 226 reviews. Dell XtremIO is rated 7.6, while VMware vSAN is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dell XtremIO writes "Suitable for high IOPS and helps get backup in ten minutes ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSAN writes "Very stable, easy to set up, and easy to use". Dell XtremIO is most compared with Dell PowerStore, Dell PowerMax NVMe, Dell Unity XT, NetApp AFF and IBM FlashSystem, whereas VMware vSAN is most compared with VxRail, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, HPE SimpliVity, Red Hat Ceph Storage and NetApp AFF.
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